Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-16

in position have been found to
be secure, while not stove
door was burst open, although one. stove
was badly broken. At 10 O'Clock Rail-
road Commissioner Kinsley arrived on
| the scene, and made detour of the en-
| bankments, with view to investigating
the cause of the accident. Preparations
for temporary bridge are being puzzled
| with all possible speed. Traffic will be
| resumed very shortly.
Martin Lynch, sub foreman of the West
Ro1bury Paving Department. was at
W TX yesterday morning with a gang OF
FIVE men cutting willows. The party
was stationed e56 feet from the bridge On
| the southeast end CT the structure
and every man had an exc. Mr.. Lynch
ssid this morning: "We had just begun
our work l saw the train coming and
stopped TO look at it. | saw it &C on the
| bridge and noticed that the train was
acting queer. This engine and three Gals
were across, but the whole train was
shaking and sWaying most violently.
Then Just as the fourth car
WAS half on the bridge and half
on the embaEkment on the other
side the bridge went down. The fifth car
plunged down with it and il its fall
dragged back and down into the pit below
the fourth car which, as l have slie8dv
said, was nalf way on the bank. The car
behind the fifth car came plunging
and crashing down upon it and
the last car of all, the
smoker, rolled over twice IS
it went down the embankment. ,'My
God! the bridge is down. Run, boys,
and take your axes yelled. l started
as fast as | could go, and they with me.
1t was an awful sight. Such struggling
and signing and moaning [ never heard
in all my life. Some of the passengers
who first succeeded in getting clear Of
the wreck seemed dazed, beWildered and
scarcely able TO realize what had
happened or where they were. Others
could and did help Us, but on the south
side of the wreck there was no help for
nearly ten minutes. Tie smoker was the
car we came to first. Oar boys swung
their axes with will. We knocked III
the end of the car, cut away between the
windows and then went In ourselves and
began the work Of rescue. We saw the
uniform OF Officer Walter B. Lalor, and
took him out. He was unconscious when
we reached him and probably dead, al
though his lips quivered for minute or
wall. We took out Mr. Snow, who was
dying, and at least dozen other I'M ured
persons. The unhurt passengers, if there
were any U don't remember seeing q
man in this car but was more er less bruis-
ed or sCaIred), helped Us and we emptied
the car, taking out the cushions, and
layisg the injured upon them. By this
time teams began TO come, and we placed
q yupynHaA in [bpD0 hu and +hrEpa
and they were carried off to the engine
house at ROslindale. All was confusion.
People were 1oCking to the place.
Every sody was screaming and shout
ing, some with pain, others
giving orders. l cannot remember the
incidents with much distinctness after
this, for I, too. was getting excited.
only know we kept at work until 10
o'clock and stayed until all were taken
away. Owing TO the duplication and mis-
spelling of names it is now believed
that the reports of the number
Of persons killed have been con-
siderabI7 Overestimated. Up TO noon
to-day DR.. Draper had signed twenty one
death certificates and DR.. Harris three,
making the entire death total up TO no N
twenty -four. The names thus Incorrectly
rep 'rted were: BarraCk, found to be- in
iured; Miss S. WaIlOw, ascertained TO be
Mrs. Swallow, wounded; Mrs. Watts,
alive and unnj ured James Cats, mistaken
for Harry Gay; Charles Swan, mistaken
for MIR. Snow; Mr.. North, mistaken for
Mr.. Lord, uninjured; William Houghton,
Identical with S. J. Houghton; Frank A.
Hewins, alive and uninjQged, not even on
the train; Mrs. Kennard was reported
killed, but her name was COMPOUNDED
with that Of Mrs. Cardinal.
A revised list of the dead is as follows:
Mrs. Ids Adams, Boston; Mrs. Mary E.
Brooks, West ROxbury; Alice Burnett
and Mrs. Harmisdas Cardinal, R oSllpdale;
Webster Clapp, West Roxoury; Hattie J.
Dudley, residence unknown; William E.
Durham, residence unknOWn; Miss Sa-
rah E Ellis, Metfeld; o Harry Gay, Bos
ton; Emma P. Hill, Boston; Stephen T.
Houghton, West Roxbury; Albert Z.
Johnson, RoslindaIe; Waldo B. La
lor, West Roxbury; Lizzie Man
devilie, Dedham; Miss Norris,
West RoxbuTy; Edward f. Norris, Ded-
ham; Miss NJ. L. O'Diorne, Dover, n h. !;
Miss Laura Price, Roslindsle; William
Edgar Snow, West Roxbury; Peter
Swaoen, Boston; William Strong, West
R9x9ury Conductor Myron Tilden, Ded-
ham; Rosa Bella WEIGH, West R0xbury.